Reply #20: He's the star of the Bushoilini Kabuki right now.

[TahitiNut]

He's clearly going to be paid handsomely for taking the fall -- the Lynndie England of Fatherland Security. It's a great deal for a guy who couldn't possibly get an honest job paying 1/10th as much. I wouldn't hire him to mow my lawn.

I'd bet one of my testicles that a comprehensive review of FEMA expenditures would portray a broad spectrum of payments for each and every identifiable mitigation and recovery element ... but would also show that far less than half of what was purchased was actually delivered in terms of tangible resources. Indeed, those payments would undoubtedly be traceable as a corporate cascade of "trickle down" subcontracts and advisory 'services' ending with a dry riverbed of funds.

The GOP model of "tickle down" in such spending probably looks like a fire-hose of funds with punctures and taps suctioning off the water until what comes out of the nozzle is reduced to a dribble. To use another metaphor, FEMA was just another source of blood for the cabal of vampires infesting DHS.